Possible to use Omni-Directional Antenna to boost WiFi?

antennas are designed to work with specific frequency bands. your am/fm TV antenna is designed for frequencies requiring a license to operate within. WiFi uses "public" frequencies requiring no license, typically either 2.4GHz or 5 GHz freq bands. So, the short answer is no, your TV antenna won't help with wifi signals.

Antennas are tuned to the frequency they will receive. The formula is: wave length = 1/frequency. Wi-Fi runs either 2.4GHz or 5GHz. UHF television channels range from 300MHz to 3GHz. So there is a little bit of crossover, but you will find that the gain using a TV antenna is very poor for Wi-Fi signal reception.

jrp wrote:
antennas are designed to work with specific frequency bands. your am/fm TV antenna is designed for frequencies requiring a license to operate within. WiFi uses "public" frequencies requiring no license, typically either 2.4GHz or 5 GHz freq bands. So, the short answer is no, your TV antenna won't help with wifi signals.

Looks like we were on the same "wave length" JRP!

Yeah that makes sense. Thanks for you quick helpful replies!

I will start shopping around for a wifi booster. I was going to do a NanoStation Loco M2 on my flag pole but being that we're more of a weekend trip family I'd like to not add one more thing I have to setup and take down. I'm going to look into something I can permanently mount on the roof and hopefully fish down through where the Omni Antenna is mounted.

You could try a wifi adapter that plugs into a USB port if you are using a laptop and that will give you an external rubber ducky antenna which will have much better gain than the internal antenna.

The Loco M2 is in the $100 range with WiFi and you can go up the Ubiquiti food chain from there. One option is a short vertical antenna and bullet amplifier and WiFi.

I've been considering a batwing mounted Yagi and bullet amplifier. This would result in a very high gain setup but very directional. It's involves setup in the sense of raising/rotating the batwing. Flagpole mounting would be a option but with even more setup involved.

jesruiz wrote:
Yeah that makes sense. Thanks for you quick helpful replies!

I will start shopping around for a wifi booster. I was going to do a NanoStation Loco M2 on my flag pole but being that we're more of a weekend trip family I'd like to not add one more thing I have to setup and take down. I'm going to look into something I can permanently mount on the roof and hopefully fish down through where the Omni Antenna is mounted.

Here is one option that I did. It is a permanent setup. The write up also includes adding a cell amp as well, I just decided if doing one why not do both
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Remember your wifi still depends on the campgrounds service provider.

This past summer while using my Netgear N300 Wi-Fi Range extender I was getting 5 bars, but everything was very slow and I couldn't stream any videos. The campground now has a new service provider, everything working good and I'm stream videos without buffering. We'll see what happen when campground fills up for the Halloween Weekends.

ereed52 wrote:
Remember your wifi still depends on the campgrounds service provider.....

What he said.

No signal booster is going to make the campground wifi "faster"

n7bsn wrote:

ereed52 wrote:
Remember your wifi still depends on the campgrounds service provider.....

What he said.

No signal booster is going to make the campground wifi "faster"

But it can make your access to their WiFi faster/better.